so they just silently killed the thinking chain huh
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Users are expressing frustration over Anthropic's decision to remove or compress Claude's "thinking chain" feature. This feature, which displayed the AI's reasoning process, was a key differentiator for many users who switched from ChatGPT. They report that the full thinking chain was first compressed into a "useless one-line summary" and now sometimes doesn't appear at all, despite users still being billed for the tokens. Users are requesting a toggle option to view the full thinking chain, summary, or turn it off.
cool cool cool. first they compressed the full thinking chain into a useless one-line summary nobody asked for. now on some messages the thinking bubble just straight up doesn’t appear. like claude didn’t even think. we know it did. we’re being billed for those tokens. but we don’t get to see them anymore. love paying for invisible reasoning.
this was literally the one feature that set claude apart. the thinking chain was the reason i switched from chatgpt. i could actually see HOW it got to an answer, not just trust the output blindly. now it’s the same black box experience as everything else except i’m paying more for it.
and the best part? no announcement. no changelog. no “hey we’re changing this.” just one day it’s there, next day it’s gone. classic.
anthropic if you’re reading this — just add a toggle. full thinking chain / summary / off. let users choose. you already generated the tokens, you already charged us for them, just show us what we paid for. how is this even a debate.